אכל
'kl "eat" a very common word. Fire "eats", particularly
in the punishments declared in Amos chs 1-2 (1:4,
7, 10,
12, 14;
2:2, 5)
but not only there (5:6; 7:4);
while the word is used literally too, of locusts (4:9;
7:2) and of humans (6:4;
7:12; 9:14).